Wikis, blogs, IM and other collaborative tools are going through a variety of trial matings as part of a grand experiment that is searching for new utility.
I've been very interested in blogs and email (more precisely rss+news aggregator email) as well as the intersection between blogs and chat spaces. The first seems very useful if you could do it right, the second may not be much more than something of short term interest.
It turns out someone is doing the blog + IM model. I haven't had time to try it and would be interested to hear from people who do. There doesn't seem to be a huge amount of functionality, but the glue is there and the possibility exists for something that is much richer.
Mindsay is a neat little IM-to-blog service, and AOL Journals will reportedly also offer this capability.
Posted by: blogal villager | August 27, 2003 at 14:00